Pushback with Aaron Maté Support Pushback at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/aaronmate Veteran US diplomat Chas Freeman says that despite talk of a New Cold War between the US and China, the US in reality is reacting aggressively to a rising Chinese power whose economic gains threaten US global supremacy. Freeman, who served in top State Department positions and as Richard Nixon’s chief interpreter on his historic 1972 visit to China, discusses the state of US-China relations and flashpoints such as Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the [putative] repression of Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang.
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Richard Wolff: Curing the capitalist disease
14 minutes readRichard D. Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst where he taught economics from 1973 to 2008. He is currently a Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New School University in New York City. He wrote Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism and founded www.democracyatwork.info, a non-profit advocacy organization of the same name that promotes democratic workplaces as a key path to a stronger, democratic economic system.
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Ben Norton traveled to Ecuador to report on the historic February 7 election, which pits a wealthy US-backed right-wing banker against a left-wing economist who pledges to continue the socialist Citizens’ Revolution launched by former President Rafael Correa. In this dispatch, working-class Ecuadorians explain why they support leftist candidate Andrés Arauz and oppose the repressive Washington-allied government of Lenín Moreno. ||| The Grayzone ||| Find more reporting at https://thegrayzone.com Support our original journalism at Patreon: https://patreon.com/grayzone
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Rhetorical Question of the Day: Is the Sudden Deplatforming of Indie Media Supported by the Biden Admin?
6 minutes readThe Biden adminustration is entering a new world of censorship, says, Jimmy Dore, and his guests Graham Elwood and Jordan Chariton agree. Both have been the target of demonetisation and other hostile measutes designed to cripple their work in recent days. Jim Dore himself could be silenced any time now. Freedom of speech does not exist for real critics of the neocon status quo in the pseudo antifascist playbook backed by the Democrats and their numerous allies in the “security state”. The mainstream media, of course, applaud.
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INDISPENSABLE Liberation Videos— Russiagate implodes; A new social media platform rises to defeat Big Tech censorship
8 minutes readA weekend edition of our INDISPENSABLE videos encompassing key stories for activists and political educators, featuring The Russiagate hoax implosion, and perhaps one of the most promising developments in the mass communications field: as Big Tech, joined at the hip with the deep State, starts to deplatform and silence progressive voices, a new platform based on blockchain ecnology promises to offer unlimited freedom of speech to all dissidents.